Category: On Writing
Bernie McGill On Writing
I’ve embarked on a new writing project recently. It may be a novel. I’m hoping it will be a novel, but at the moment, it’s a few thousand words of stray comments, observations, reflections and responses to a fictional situation by a fictional character in a real place that I know fairly well and am […]
Why I Write Funny Feminist Noir
When I was in grad school, I dated a guy who would dress me up in skimpy outfits, lock me in handcuffs, and put me in a box. No, not like that! He was a magician and I was his assistant. My kitten, Merlin, was his magic rabbit. He would pull Merlin from a hat […]
Friday Night at the Olympia Theater
Jean P. Moore grew up in Miami, Florida. She began her professional career as a high school English teacher and worked for a number of years as executive director of workforce development. Jean has since returned to her first loves: the study of literature and writing. Her novel Water on the Moon was published in June 2014 […]
Two Truths And A Lie: What I’ve Learned Going From Small Press To A Big Publisher
We’ve all played this game, or at least some version of it. It’s an icebreaker activity in which partygoers circle up and introduce themselves by telling two true things and one lie. It’s then up to the remainder of the players to guess what is real and what is not. Oftentimes the false statement is […]
AUTHORS INTERVIEWING THEIR CHARACTERS; Amy Blumenfeld
Interview with Becca Scardino from THE CAST, by Amy Blumenfeld Becca, thank you for taking the time to chat with us. My pleasure! Thanks for having me. So, how does it feel to have a book written about your group of friends? Surreal. Honestly, I laughed the first time Amy approached us with the idea. […]
How Childhood Reading Shapes Identity
Little Women turned me into a writer. I identified with Meg, but longed to be Jo. In Concord, Massachusetts, visitors to the Orchard House can see the tiny desk on which Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women in 1868. Visitors to the Alcott family home also learn that Bronson Alcott, an idealist and progressive teacher, […]
Writing Fiction About Sexual Abuse And Sexual Violence In The Era Of #MeToo
Sexual abuse is a challenging subject to write about in fiction. The sexual abuse of children is especially challenging given the strong emotions evoked by the topic. We are sensitive to the language used to describe sex, even more so when it involves transgression. Novels have been banned for overstepping the mark of what is […]
Better Together
Five years ago, I was close enough to having a finished manuscript for my first novel, Even in Darkness, that I began to seriously explore how to get it published. The novel was a fictional rendering of the life story of a relative I’d known and admired and whose resilience and glass-half-full life philosophy deeply […]
She Is Fierce: Collecting Women’s Poetry
It’s an exciting time for poetry. Slams and performances are attracting huge audiences; book sales are booming; some of today’s biggest online superstars are poets. Women are at the forefront of this movement: winning prizes, headlining festivals, topping bestseller lists and connecting with thousands of readers in digital spaces. It has not, however, always been […]
What Makes A Brilliant Book?
What makes a brilliant read? That is a very good question. What makes you pick up a book up in a bookstore or hit click on your e-book store? I have to be honest; I’m a bit of book buying addict. I’m sure even by reading at least two books a week (which is about […]
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